Improvement in drawer-handles



W. F. & G. A. HEILIGMANN.

- Drawer-Handle.

No. 217.373. Patented Jul 8,1879.

.UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE;

WILLIAM F. HEILIGMANN AND GUSTAVUS'A. HEILIGMANN, OF PHILADELPHIA,PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEM ENT IN DRAWER-HANDLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 217,373, dated July 8,1879; application filed April 15, 1879.

head of the bolt or screw which binds the drawer-handle in place. It isaccomplished by means of a covering-piece, which is glued or otherwisefixed over the bolt or screw head, and the whole afterward carved orfashioned to any required design. I Figure l is a viewof the unfinishedback or base of a drawer-pull and its holding-screw.

Fig. 2 is a view of the unfinished back; its holding-screw,and thecovering-piece. Fig. 3 is a view of the finished handle; and Fig. 4 is atransverse section, in a vertical plane, through the line a b, Fig. 3.

A is the back or base of a handle, having a screw, B, which holds it inplace. O is a concealing-cover, which,after being glued'or otherwisefixed in place over the bolt or screw head 0, can be carved, togetherwith the base, as shown in Fig. 3, or to any suitable pattern. The head0 of the bolt can be recessed in the base A, as shown, or it can projectinto a hollow formed in the cover 0.

Heretofore handles have been either glued to a drawer or attached byscrews passed from the inside, which is a long tedious process. By ourmethod handles can be rapidly and effi ciently attached at a small cost.

We claim as our invention- As a new article of manufacture, a woodendrawer-handle consisting of a base, A, adapted to be attached to thedrawer by means of a bolt, B, whose head 0 is countersunk and concealedbya covering-piece, O, rigidly attached "to the base A, substantially asdescribed.

In testimony whereof we hereunto sign our names in presence of twosubscribing witmesses:

W. F. HEILIGMANN. G. A. HEILIGMANN. Witnesses: G. H. HEILIGMANN,

T. FINK.

